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Define Your Own Commands

You can define your own commands to perform specialized processing. You need to:

• Write an NCL procedure that performs the processing that you want your command to perform.
• Register the command to Automation Services (for more information, see Registering and Maintaining Commands in this chapter).
• Manually distribute the procedure to linked regions or place it in a shared library, accessible to all systems.

You can register different versions of a command with the same name. Automation Services executes the version that best fits the resource or service the command is applied to.

For example, you can register two versions of a command with the name Z, where version one applies to all resources, and version two applies to started tasks only. When the Z command is applied to a started task, Automation Services executes version two of the command.